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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Megalopolis in Greece

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Megalopolis in Greece on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 21.9211° East, 37.4988° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/09/19 / 2019-09-08 20:00:17 / September 8, 2019 @ 8:00 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005dgg. Id of event: us70005dgg. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:00:17 / 10:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Greece (c. 11 000 000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Pátra (c. 163 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kalamáta (c. 51 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Trípoli (c. 26 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Pýrgos (c. 22 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Árgos (c. 22 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Aígio (c. 20 700 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Amaliáda (c. 19 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zákynthos, Kiáto, Río (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 22 km WNW of Megalopolis, Greece.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	21.9211° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	37.4988° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km WNW of Megalopolis, Greece	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-08 20:00:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-08 21:28:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	312	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.319	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	48	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70005dgg	Id of event.
Event Code	70005dgg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005dgg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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